mardi 11 octobre 2011

ATTLEBORO SHRINE - A NEVER ENDING STORY

This story never ends. It never ends because it is a story of remembering. La Salette community people remember the words of Our Mother Mary, "Well, my children, make this known to all my people." La Salette people also remember that these words are an echo of her Son's words to His disciples, "Go, therefore and make disciples of all the nations..." (MT 28, 19) So that's what we do. We carry the cross through the streets to make it visible to everyone. To be concrete, here are some telling statistics from the Shrine dedicated to spreading the message of Our Lady of La Salette located in Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA.
For the year 2010 - 2011Masses in front of 85,800 faithful in six (6) languagesConfessions of about 42,000 people in three languagesHealing services with sacrament for 15,000 people in three
languagesFeeding the homeless -- 5,400 peopleRetreats -- 3,000 youth; 4,000 adults
Much of all this and much more is made possible by an army of 1,000 volunteers.